Tributes Pour in for Nigerian Literary Icon Gabriel Okara

The literary icon Gabriel Okara was the first renowned English language black poet and also the first modernist writer on the African continent. Many of his unpublished manuscripts were destroyed during the Nigerian Civil War.

Gabriel Okara.

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